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I'm currently playing a level 54 LF Javazon. The problem is, I can never use more than about 8 LFs before my mana bulb runs dry. I have 10 ML, twice what the guides reccommend and I still never have enough mana to throw more.
I've asked people if AR matters and they've all told me no.
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28-08-2007, 03:35 #1
Issue with my javazon....
28-08-2007, 03:38 #2
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the problem may lie in the low physical damage of ur weapon. the higher the damage the more the leech
also try to get pheonix for the aura. will help a lot.
if you cant afford go for +mana per kill items, they help tons as well
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Phoenix shield might be a little expensive unless you are very rich. I would recommend insight merc stick.
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Non upgraded titans will probably not leech enough. I strongly suggest insight and silkweave.
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28-08-2007, 21:33 #7
Insight on your merc. . .hmm. . .Would it help- yes- as long as he stays alive.
You effectively change your merc from a helpful killing tool (one that can provide you with WAY more valuable auras) into a Mana generator. When he dies. . .like he so often does when holding an Insight stick. . .you're dead in the water.
The solution to your problem is rather simple actually, and you don't need any fancy runewords on your merc, and you don't need to upgrade your Titans (although both solutions would help).
1. You need items that give you + mana for each kill. You might not think that this would help too much, but it does- significantly. Especially with the killing power of LF. Even at +5 mana per kill. . .If you throw ONE Jav and Kill 4 things (not uncommon at all) you will get 20 Mana back. There are many common items that give +mana after each kill, so no super duped runes are needed, and you don't have to trade the farm for some exotic Elite/Exceptional Unique piece of equipment that you would have to pump Str or Dex through the roof to equip. Simply have a ring or maybe an ammulet that has maybe +5 or so each and that should help alot. There is also the Tir Rune -very common and provides +2 mana after each kill. Won't cure you, but it will help.
2. You need Items that increase your mana bulb. A bigger mana pool to draw from has benefits other than # of consecutive times you can cast your spells. Try to get items that increase your Mana. Again- this won't cure you, but it will help alot.
3. Mana regeneration rate- You can't have enough of this. There are many items that increase it. Try to find some.
4. Leech. The last piece of the puzzle is leech. I say last because in my mind it is much easier to come by, and I believe there is more to be gained by using the other methods. Leeching only happens off of the physical portion of your attack. Much of the damage from LF happens from the Lightning and therefore is not used in the leech calculations. Shoot for 20% and see if your bulb stays a little more full.
Hope this helps. . .
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assuming this zon is not for pvp, then get some sojs if you can afford.
Making a good javazon is not cheap, if you can't afford good equip, I wouldn't make one.
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weapon - titans
helm - valk wing the 2-4+ mana per kill, skills, frw, socket it with a tir if u want
shield - spirit ~100 in to mana 2 skills and resists, o and 55fhr
Armor - vipermagi/skulders/que heagans plenty of options for resis/mf/mana
belt - tgods/razortail/glooms trap
gloves - 2/20 rares 3/20 magical gloves arnt too hard to come by
boots - silkweaves for mana
rare rings and cats eye ammy
all of this should cost you 40 pgems?
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I think giving up news altogether is a lil crazy, but I do think we can become news junkies and it really affects us. Maybe a better idea is to just limit what we read to one or two very informed sources and not everyday!!
News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier
News is bad for your health. It leads to fear and aggression, and hinders your creativity and ability to think deeply. The solution? Stop consuming it altogether
In the past few decades, the fortunate among us have recognised the hazards of living with an overabundance of food (obesity, diabetes) and have started to change our diets. But most of us do not yet understand that news is to the mind what sugar is to the body. News is easy to digest. The media feeds us small bites of trivial matter, tidbits that don't really concern our lives and don't require thinking. That's why we experience almost no saturation. Unlike reading books and long magazine articles (which require thinking), we can swallow limitless quantities of news flashes, which are bright-coloured candies for the mind. Today, we have reached the same point in relation to information that we faced 20 years ago in regard to food. We are beginning to recognise how toxic news can be.
News misleads.
Take the following event (borrowed from Nassim Taleb). A car drives over a bridge, and the bridge collapses. What does the news media focus on? The car. The person in the car. Where he came from. Where he planned to go. How he experienced the crash (if he survived). But that is all irrelevant. What's relevant? The structural stability of the bridge. That's the underlying risk that has been lurking, and could lurk in other bridges. But the car is flashy, it's dramatic, it's a person (non-abstract), and it's news that's cheap to produce. News leads us to walk around with the completely wrong risk map in our heads. So terrorism is over-rated. Chronic stress is under-rated. The collapse of Lehman Brothers is overrated. Fiscal irresponsibility is under-rated. Astronauts are over-rated. Nurses are under-rated.
We are not rational enough to be exposed to the press. Watching an airplane crash on television is going to change your attitude toward that risk, regardless of its real probability. If you think you can compensate with the strength of your own inner contemplation, you are wrong. Bankers and economists – who have powerful incentives to compensate for news-borne hazards – have shown that they cannot. The only solution: cut yourself off from news consumption entirely.
News is irrelevant.
Out of the approximately 10,000 news stories you have read in the last 12 months, name one that – because you consumed it – allowed you to make a better decision about a serious matter affecting your life, your career or your business. The point is: the consumption of news is irrelevant to you. But people find it very difficult to recognise what's relevant. It's much easier to recognise what's new. The relevant versus the new is the fundamental battle of the current age. Media organisations want you to believe that news offers you some sort of a competitive advantage. Many fall for that. We get anxious when we're cut off from the flow of news. In reality, news consumption is a competitive disadvantage. The less news you consume, the bigger the advantage you have.
News has no explanatory power.
News items are bubbles popping on the surface of a deeper world. Will accumulating facts help you understand the world? Sadly, no. The relationship is inverted. The important stories are non-stories: slow, powerful movements that develop below journalists' radar but have a transforming effect. The more "news factoids" you digest, the less of the big picture you will understand. If more information leads to higher economic success, we'd expect journalists to be at the top of the pyramid. That's not the case.
News is toxic to your body.
It constantly triggers the limbic system. Panicky stories spur the release of cascades of glucocorticoid (cortisol). This deregulates your immune system and inhibits the release of growth hormones. In other words, your body finds itself in a state of chronic stress. High glucocorticoid levels cause impaired digestion, lack of growth (cell, hair, bone), nervousness and susceptibility to infections. The other potential side-effects include fear, aggression, tunnel-vision and desensitisation.
News increases cognitive errors
. News feeds the mother of all cognitive errors: confirmation bias. In the words of Warren Buffett: "What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact." News exacerbates this flaw. We become prone to overconfidence, take stupid risks and misjudge opportunities. It also exacerbates another cognitive error: the story bias. Our brains crave stories that "make sense" – even if they don't correspond to reality. Any journalist who writes, "The market moved because of X" or "the company went bankrupt because of Y" is an idiot. I am fed up with this cheap way of "explaining" the world.
News inhibits thinking.
Thinking requires concentration. Concentration requires uninterrupted time. News pieces are specifically engineered to interrupt you. They are like viruses that steal attention for their own purposes. News makes us shallow thinkers. But it's worse than that. News severely affects memory. There are two types of memory. Long-range memory's capacity is nearly infinite, but working memory is limited to a certain amount of slippery data. The path from short-term to long-term memory is a choke-point in the brain, but anything you want to understand must pass through it. If this passageway is disrupted, nothing gets through. Because news disrupts concentration, it weakens comprehension. Online news has an even worse impact. In a 2001 study two scholars in Canada showed that comprehension declines as the number of hyperlinks in a document increases. Why? Because whenever a link appears, your brain has to at least make the choice not to click, which in itself is distracting. News is an intentional interruption system.
News works like a drug.
As stories develop, we want to know how they continue. With hundreds of arbitrary storylines in our heads, this craving is increasingly compelling and hard to ignore. Scientists used to think that the dense connections formed among the 100 billion neurons inside our skulls were largely fixed by the time we reached adulthood. Today we know that this is not the case. Nerve cells routinely break old connections and form new ones. The more news we consume, the more we exercise the neural circuits devoted to skimming and multitasking while ignoring those used for reading deeply and thinking with profound focus. Most news consumers – even if they used to be avid book readers – have lost the ability to absorb lengthy articles or books. After four, five pages they get tired, their concentration vanishes, they become restless. It's not because they got older or their schedules became more onerous. It's because the physical structure of their brains has changed.
News wastes time.
If you read the newspaper for 15 minutes each morning, then check the news for 15 minutes during lunch and 15 minutes before you go to bed, then add five minutes here and there when you're at work, then count distraction and refocusing time, you will lose at least half a day every week. Information is no longer a scarce commodity. But attention is. You are not that irresponsible with your money, reputation or health. Why give away your mind?
News makes us passive.
News stories are overwhelmingly about things you cannot influence. The daily repetition of news about things we can't act upon makes us passive. It grinds us down until we adopt a worldview that is pessimistic, desensitised, sarcastic and fatalistic. The scientific term is "learned helplessness". It's a bit of a stretch, but I would not be surprised if news consumption, at least partially contributes to the widespread disease of depression.
News kills creativity.
Finally, things we already know limit our creativity. This is one reason that mathematicians, novelists, composers and entrepreneurs often produce their most creative works at a young age. Their brains enjoy a wide, uninhabited space that emboldens them to come up with and pursue novel ideas. I don't know a single truly creative mind who is a news junkie – not a writer, not a composer, mathematician, physician, scientist, musician, designer, architect or painter. On the other hand, I know a bunch of viciously uncreative minds who consume news like drugs. If you want to come up with old solutions, read news. If you are looking for new solutions, don't.
Society needs journalism – but in a different way. Investigative journalism is always relevant. We need reporting that polices our institutions and uncovers truth. But important findings don't have to arrive in the form of news. Long journal articles and in-depth books are good, too.
I have now gone without news for four years, so I can see, feel and report the effects of this freedom first-hand: less disruption, less anxiety, deeper thinking, more time, more insights. It's not easy, but it's worth it.
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Oh! No news is not such a bad thing.....lol!! But yes I agree with what is written about news raising anxiety levels. Of late I had been thinking of reducing the news input I get specially the 'rape' news because its making me paranoid. Ever since the delhi rape case newspapers have made it a point to carry sexual abuse news eveyday. And its good. Things must come out in open. It creates alertness and it increases the chance of speedy justice for the victim. But then it seems that every woman is getting raped and every man is a rapist and our turn can come anyday...Things were same earlier also but because it was reported less there never seemed to be any probablity of it occuring in our lives. May Allah help us all.
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I agree entirely, especially with the news of this age, there's only pessimistic thoughts that come to your mind - horrible economic future, killings, wars, earthquakes, govt sponsored robbery(Cyprus) and what not. And as a pessimist, it helps to not be infused with more negativity.
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I want to make sure I am getting off on the right foot- I haven't really lost any weight and I am in my second week, my pants are also fitting the same....so please let me know if something catches your eye or if you have any suggestions.
I walk/ run first thing in the morning (every morning) something I have always done.As soon as I get home, I wait about 2o mins's and.... here we go:B: either:- 3 eggs with a touch of skim milk, mixed together, microwaved and seasoned with salsa and garlic salt, put onto a whole wheat tortilla or whole wheat bread with a small amount of butter- 1/3 cup oat meal with 1/3 cup fat free cottage cheese
L & D meals:- chicken fried on stove with olive oil, served with (microwaved) baked potato, seasoned with salsa and dab of butter (small dab!)- chicken cooked the same way, but served over lettuce and topped with vinegar and oil- Turkey bacon served with whole wheat bread
Snacks:- 1/2 cup cottage cheese with 1/2 cup sliced pineapple - Greek yogurt- celery with PB- 1/2 cup frozen yogurt from Ben & Jerry's (I know, I know.....but it's frozen yogurt!!! right???)
Thats really all I eat and I'm getting tired of chicken real quick. I want to try Muscle Milk (since I just weaned my youngest)- is that any good? Any suggestions for meals?
Also, here is my work out:
As I said, I walk every day for about 25 mins- It's the only way to clear my mind before I start the day.Every day I do a work out. I know it's not recommended for BFL, but I'm worried I won't see results unless I work my muscles. So I do Arms, the next day, legs, the next abs, then start over again- only taking one day off, usually Sunday. I'm also not doing HIIT with the weights. I hate to confess that. But I do with my walks. I eat every 2-3 hours and try to drink water like crazy throughout the day.
First off, you are doing great and on the right track! You are making this a priority, exercising dilligently and keeping track of what you eat. And you are coming on the forum, being honest when you ask for help-you are really serious about it!
I am not an expert on diet and nutrition, there are other people here who could probably give more insight. But I have read the book many times and my parents talked about this stuff all the time when I lived at home. It the book, it advises against frozen yogurt because of the sugar content. Also, adding salt and butter packs in a lot of sodium, which can greatly contribute to the bloating. Cooking with oil can take away the healthy factor in food. Some things you can use instead are non-stick cooking spray, and to add flavor you could try "I can't believe its not butter" spray.
Your first couple weeks sound similar to mine. I had a really hard time totally cutting out some of my favorite things, it was like my taste buds were all in protest. I love butter, I love cookies, and if I posted my whole food journal you would see those items making guest appearances throughout the beginning. Eventually they were escorted out of my diet. Through practice, saying "no" as often as I was capable, I have learned discipline. Yesterday I was at a metting with free cookies, donuts, candies, and I didn't have any! There were people who got up in the middle of it to go and get more, and I was just like "awe man that USED to be me!" (In my mind of course).
If you are getting tired of the chicken, you could try tuna or turkey. I crumble crackers into the tuna and it tastes better and fills me up. You can get a lean turkey breast at walmart for like $10. I bake it in the oven, in a pan with low sodium chicken broth and italian herbs sprinkled over it. You can slice it up and that's several meals for a couple days. I bake chicken in the oven with water about an inch high in a pan and cajun seasoning. Cover it with foil, and half way through (30 min on 375) take the foil off. The meat comes out perfect-not too juicy, not too dry. I also cook it in a crock pot with a spicy sauce I make out of chili powder,cholula hot sauce and sliced serano and yellow hot peppers. I comes out SOO good nd the sauce doesn't add much calories or soudium at all. I never cooked before; I just started asking m healthy friends and family what they cook and how. I ask people who "have what I want" as far as health and stuff go.
One more thing (super long post I know): with the exercise, I learned that I can't make up for my diet by working out extra. I heard that from a fitness junky with a nicee body, and I have found that to be true for me. This girl does cardio just like the BFL plan, and she has a body that I seriously freakin want to have. She says its all about diet along with the 3x a week of weights and cardio. You gotta eat the right things and cut out the other stuff to keep the fat at bay. Like bill said on the other thread, too much exercise will prevent the proper healing process. I've been through it before, its like one day you wake up feeling like a hungover frat dude, you're hungry, and can't get to the gym. It stinks! But you will get the hang of it. You are determined :-)
I agree with Caity :)
First, I would eliminate Butter, Peanut Butter, Frozen Yogurt. Only on free day. I wouldn't have a meal consisting of Turkey Bacon and Whole Wheat Bread. Not horrible, but so many choices would be better. Finally, I would follow the book. I would lift 3 days a week as prescribed and do HIIT cardio three days a week. At this point you're making an effort - and that's great. But you're not really doing BFL. You're following a program that nobody has followed before, so there's no way to know how it will work. If you follow the book with intensity, you'll be following a program that has produced thousands of really good to great results. Best of luck.
I have had great success with BFL and the reason why is that I followed it exactly the way it's supposed to be. It's really easy when you break it down.
1. Eat 6 times a day. I HIGHLY recommend using EAS products for three of those (i.e. a shake or bar) because you don't have to think about it and you know it's healthy! (LOVE EAS Lean 15 protein powder, Myoplex Lite Ready to Drink Shakes and Lean 15 protein bars - mint chocolate!)
But when you are eating on your own: ONLY eat 1 portion of protein (the size of your palm) and 1 portion of carbs (size of your fist) and you can add veggies when you'd like. But ONLY eat the foods listed on the approved foods list. Some veggies are actually carbs so watch out!
You should only have ONE tablespoon of fat a day so only cook with non-fat cooking spray. If you LOVE peanut butter (like I do) you can use that as your one tablespoon (use a measuring spoon so you don't overeat by accident!). I used it for "dessert" at the end of the night. Mixed into my protein pudding (packet of FF/SF pudding, two scoops of EAS protein powder and 2 cups skim milk - eat 1/4 of that with PB per night).
If there is a forbidden item (i.e. butter) just save up and eat it on your free day! I also use I Can't Believe it's Not Butter Spray which is DELICIOUS and has nothing in it!
2. You really have to do the workouts they way they are set out. HIIT for cardio, HIIT for lifting and do it 6 days a week. The only time I strayed was doing abs every other day instead of only on leg day. But that's about.
I went from a size 8 to a size 0 in 12 weeks. You can do it!! Just have that food list with you constantly and be honest about your portion sizes. And keep up with your great water intake!!!
Let me know if you have any questions. I LOVE BFL!!!
OH! And stick to just egg whites, not whole eggs. And I would go with EAS Lean 15 protein powder over Muscle Milk. Muscle Milk tastes great because it has a lot of fat and sugar.
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hello everyone! i'm new to the tippmann forums, but not new to the sport of paintball. a little info about me, i have been playing paintball for ten plus years. the last 4-5 i've been playing pump. before that it was all rec play with anything from stbb to milsim to matrix's to basically anything and everything. i just purchased a new tpx with a bunch of mags and i am in love with it. i think i have found what was missing in my paintball life in the tpx. using just the tpx is so much fun!
anyways after doing some research on the tpx on other paintball forums and watching reviews on youtube, i always come across somewhere that their was a possibility that tippmann might produce an extended magazines for the tpx. since i bought the tpx recently from the tippman website it came with the two 7 round true-feed clips. they work great and have shot all 8 of my magazines many upon many times with out any problems. i would love to see tippmann sell the extended mags with a minimum of 10 rounds.(i would love 12 rounds) i also heard the tiberius will not have the extended mags made for them anymore.(not sure if it is true.) this would be a good time for tippmann to pick up on the idea for the tpx pistol.
i have made this a poll. so go ahead a cast your vote.
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For a micro-ISV, selling to businesses can be more lucrative than selling to consumers. Instead of making a few dollars per sale and hoping for thousands of sales, you sell to only a few customers, and charge much higher rates. But the rates are high for a reason. It takes more time and money to sell to businesses.
Consumers rarely read software license agreements. Most corporate customers don't read them either, but some have legal departments that must approve any agreement that the company makes, no matter how small. Your EULA will be examined with the same fervor as a billion dollar acquisition.
The license agreement's primary purpose, then, is to get past the customer's legal team quickly, because they stand between you and a sale. It helps if it is fair and well balanced at the start. That way, if they add crazy one-sided terms, you can negotiate without sounding unreasonable.
Some terms that you may be asked for:
A good software license agreement that you can re-use in a variety of situations can cost anywhere from $1000 to $5000. It pays to shop around.
A quotation looks just like an invoice, except that it has an expiry date. Sixty days ought to be long enough for the client to make a decision, even if the whole department goes on consecutive vacations.
You and your buyer have patiently waited for five months for the company's legal team review your license. Now, the signed copies have been faxed (yes, faxed!) back and forth. At last, they'll click on that Paypal button on your order page...
Think again. Once a large business has agreed to buy your product, you are expected to send it to them for free. They do not have to pay you a dime until they feel like it. Instead, they will send a purchase order.
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Imagine you are asked to buy some software from, say Adobe.
Now imagine you have to do this for 1000 different items, at 1000 different web sites. It gets to be a very large job. Some companies have outsourced their procurement to resellers.
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Video replay: Mass on the U.S.-Mexico Border
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Led by His Eminence Sean Cardinal O'Malley of the Archdiocese of Boston, the bishops commemorated the deaths of migrants in the desert and prayed for immigration reform. Click here or on the image above to watch a recording of the Mass. Fast forward to the 10:35 mark of the video for the start of the Mass.
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Mass on the Border:
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Mass flyer | Activities to do in solidarity | Reported by the Ignatian Solidarity Network | View the video stream of the Mass
USCCB Migration Committee to Travel to U.S.-Mexico Border to Remember Fallen Migrants, Highlight Human Consequences of Broken Immigration System
March 6, 2014
Read | En Español | Reported in L'Osservatore Romano
Video: The Dignity of Immigrants
March 2014
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Archbishop José Gomez: What can we do now on immigration reform?
February 21, 2014
Washington Post: Cardinal McCarrick
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February 6, 2014
USCCB Chair 'strongly encouraged' by House Republican immigration reform principles, pledges to work with all to pass humane immigration reform legislation
January 31, 2014
Congress must seize this moment to fix broken system
Principles diverge from USCCB position, but seen as starting point
Bipartisan cooperation needed to produce agreement
Bishop Eusebio Elizondo of Seattle: Immigration reform would lift immigrant families out of poverty, benefit nation
January 1, 2014
NY Times: Boehner Is Said to Back Change on Immigration
January 1, 2014
Current state of U.S. immigration `an offense against God,' say bishops
November 29, 2013
Catholic News Service (courtesy of CatholicPhilly.com): SAN ANTONIO (CNS) — In a new pastoral letter "Families Beyond Borders," the bishops of the border region of Texas, New Mexico and Mexico humanize the immigration debate by placing it in a moral context with specific illustrations of struggling children and families. Read | Video | Read "Families Beyond Borders" | En Español: Familia Mas Alla De las Fronteras
Citing "great moral urgency," USCCB President calls on House of Representatives to pass immigration reform legislation
November 7, 2013
Cardinal Dolan also wrote that keeping undocumented workers as a permanent underclass is a "stain on the soul of our nation." Read | Read the letter | More | En Español
At 'Justice for Immigrants' Mass, bishop calls Jesus 'divine immigrant'
October 17, 2013
Jesus was the "divine immigrant" who lived his life "traveling from place to place," Bishop O'Connell told the congregation at Mass. Read | Read more and see video | Photos
Guest Column by Bishop Paul Loverde of Arlington, VA and Bishop Francis DiLorenzo of Richmond, VA
October 13, 2013
Richmond Times-Dispatch: We write as bishops whose own families immigrated to this country from Italy. We live in a commonwealth settled by immigrants from Europe, and now populated by people from every corner of the globe. As they always have, immigrants sit among us in our pews and our classrooms. Many of those we interact with every day, including our co-workers and employees, are immigrants. They live in our neighborhoods and pay taxes in our communities. They are our neighbors. Read
Denver Post: Colorado bishops' pastoral letter urges broad immigration reform
October 1, 2013
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Video: Parishioners advocate of immigration reform
September 23, 2013
WHSV TV-3 News (Harrisonburg, VA) View video
Video on immigration by Archbishop Robert Carlson of St. Louis
September 10, 2013
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Homily by Bishop
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September 8, 2013
When we reject a stranger we are rejecting Christ. Read
Archbishop George Lucas writing from Omaha
September 6, 2013
Getting involved in immigration reform is about more than law, it's about faith. Read
Catholic Conference of Kentucky video on immigration
August 21, 2013
A Window of Opportunity to Reform Our Immigration System Read | View video
Catholic Conference Statement on Immigration Reform
August 14, 2013
We encourage the Catholic community to contact their members ...in the House of Representatives (to) support immigration reform legislation. Read | En Español
Charles Chaput writing from Philadelphia
August 7, 2013
Security, immigration reform and human dignitiy: Most undocumented immigrants in the U.S. – the vast majority — never commit a violent act, have no desire to undermine the common good and contribute productively to American prosperity. Read | En Español
Sioux City bishop criticizes Rep. Steve King's immigration comments
July 29, 2013
Sioux City Journal: "I am disappointed by Rep. King's remarks, which speak of migrants in a way that undermines their human dignity and the respect owed them as children of God." Read | More
Catholic college officials urge Congress to pass reform
July 18, 2013
Washington Post: More than 90 Catholic university heads urged their fellow Catholics in Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform. Read | More | Read the letter
An Open Letter to Minnesota Congresspersons
June 26, 2013
A Christian Call for Immigration Reform
Read | Press Release from the Minnesota Catholic Conference
Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act
June 20, 2013
Letter from the Wisconsin Catholic Conference on S. 744. Read
Bishop of Bismarck writes to North Dakota's U.S. Senators
June 18, 2013
Bishop David Kagan: "Your support crucial for just immigration reform." Read
Strong Catholic support for immigration reform
April 19, 2013
Nearly eighty percent of Catholic voters support earned citizenship. Catholics need to contact their legislators. News Release | En Español | Survey Summary | Survey
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, discusses immigration and the GOP in an interview on MSNBC. Watch the interview


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I have heard pros and cons of both, but am curious what everyone thinks.
I currently have a 40gal tank, whirlpool. I hate it, but it was in when house was purchased and I have already upgraded it to the new thermal coupler for what it is worth. There are 3 of us living in the house, with a fourth due soon and I have 2 bathrooms.
The 40gal tank just doesn't seem to supply enough hot water for back to back showers and this morning, my 3y/o was taking a bath, while I took my shower and my water got cold. She had maybe 1/4 tub of water and I take, maybe a 5min shower. This tank isn't but maybe 3-4 years old, if that.
I have also thought about adding some radiant heat and I see where many recommend a hot water tank for that, which brings me to my questions.
1) Will a wall mounted, gas, on-demand unit supply hot water for multiple functions at once or is that not what they are designed for? For example, can I take a shower, my daughter a bath. What about a shower and running the washing machine at the same time? Currently, that doesn't work well!
My understanding is that the on-demand units aren't great at providing hot water to several items at once.
2) If the on-demand units aren't good at several items at once, can they be plumbed to work in conjunction with a hot water tank? Or is that like I figure not real efficient and a waste of money.
3) While researching radiant floor setups, I came across a hot-water tank that was about $3500, forget the brand, but what makes one of those worth $3500 vs. the $400 units? It was 90% or 95% efficient, but even if it cost nothing it would take 8 years to recoop the cost over my current unit.
4) Is 40gal tank style big enough for 4 people or should I look at a larger unit? Or maybe even just a 2nd unit and plumb the showers to the 2nd one. It wouldn't be hard, as everything is being converted to pex.
My thoughts are....get either a bigger tank style or an on-demand unit. I have thought about trying to use the current tank for a radiant system, as I don't think it's bad, just that it might be having a hard time keeping up.


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Sunday, November 30, 2008
Thankful for so many things this year ... for cuddles and laughter and anything and everything with my Johnny... my amazing parents & sister and awesome best friends ... fluffy fat cats Winnie and Charlie who always keep me and Johnny on our toes ... and that Barack Obama was just elected as our next president ... I'm also thankful for bad TV like "The Hills" and "America's Next Top Model," summer concerts under the stars, books that are creased and earmarked from being read over and over again, funfetti cupcakes, Robertitos nachos and sleeping in, bubble baths and pedicures, Target, the new place that Johnny and I are so lucky to call home, a fat paycheck when I'm not expecting it and even a small paycheck because I'm still lucky (in spite of what you may read on Twitter. ha!) just to have a job, four day vacations and road trips, weekends and holidays, home cooked meals and eating out, old photos and nicknames, strawberry daiquiris, handwritten letters and surprises, my college degree and favorite professors, new shoes and favorite cardigans, long necklaces, French toast, Steely Dan and Spoon and too many bands to name, Christopher Guest movies, marrying into a big family that plays football on the lawn on Christmas Eve, skinny jeans, cozy PJ's and slipper boots, long walks around the neighborhood, bike rides and camping, sunny days where the sky is filled with tons of cotton ball clouds, board games and nights in, Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie (but no thanks to their prices), that I live only a few hours away from the beach and the mountains, a secret handshake and inside jokes, Christmas music and traditions like watching "Planes, Trains and Automobiles on Thanksgiving," long phone calls about nothing, plaid shirts, trees bursting with fall colors, Taro pearl tea, bike rides, "Seinfeld" reruns and fresh baked cookies ...
And I'm also so thankful for YOU, my wonderful readers and friends! I'm so grateful for the friendships I've made through blogging. You guys seriously are the bee's knees. xoxo
I'm a lucky, lucky girl.
Hope you all had a super Thanksgiving!
14 comments:
- reederscorner said...
I laughed out loud when I read that you're thankful for ANTM and the Hills... because I'm def. thankful for those two shows too! They're so addictive!
- December 1, 2008 at 7:02 AM
- Design Gal said...
i love how Johnny manages to get into all of those pictures! you guys are so cute!
and i'm so thankful to have met you too! one of these days we'll party in person! haha!
happy post-thanksgiving!
- December 1, 2008 at 7:14 AM
- Sarah said...
aww sair that is a great list! I am thankful for you too!
- December 1, 2008 at 9:49 AM
- Ashley said...
hahaha. SMP!!!! how are you soooooo cute!?!? man, i love you. you are the bees knees! xo
- December 1, 2008 at 9:56 AM
- Johnny said...
FUN NIGHT!! Eric takes the best pictures.
- December 1, 2008 at 10:36 AM
- Johnny said...
P.S. You look HILARIOUS in the 3rd pic. One of my fave Sarah faces!
- December 1, 2008 at 10:37 AM
- Katelin said...
those pics are great. and love the list. woo.
- December 1, 2008 at 12:28 PM
- Sara McGinness said...
world's best thanksgiving post ever!!! you are too cute and you write in such a way that is mesmerizing and really captures what you are thinking.
- December 1, 2008 at 6:58 PM
- always sunny said...
look who won!!
- December 1, 2008 at 7:02 PM
- sohobutterfly said...
Happy TG to you!!!!!!! Love the fun pics of you and your buds.
- December 2, 2008 at 10:08 AM
- Mermanda said...
I'm all warm and fuzzy from this post. I'm thankful for bloggy friends like you!
- December 2, 2008 at 1:39 PM
- *jimaie.marie* said...
seriously how did i manage to look exactly the same in every pic?! LOL
that was a fun night fo sho. i love you!!
and what a fun list you've compiled, i've STILL been meaning to do mine! i'm thinkin i'll post one as an end of the year hurrah? please jesus let me have a computer/internet by then!
- December 3, 2008 at 1:53 PM
- Talia said...
this is like the cutest list ever. You are like the cutest ever! I love it. And I love that I could have put so much of your thankful list on my OWN thankful list... we have a lot of loves in common. :)
- December 4, 2008 at 11:14 AM
- Steph said...
Yay for be thankful :) haha I liked the anthropologie thrown in there!
- December 6, 2008 at 9:46 AM


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Karl Rove created American Crossroads to continue his 40-year history of unfairly manipulating elections on behalf of oligarchs. He joined with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a cabal of corporate barons, and other CEOs that want Big Business to control our elections and our government. Rove's group plans to amass more than $50 million from companies making secret donations, and spend that money to influence elections and buy candidates who will act on behalf of those companies and their deregulatory policies. These same polices brought us Enron, the collapse of Wall Street banks, Bernie Maddoff, Jack Abramoff, the Gulf oil spill, the recent coal mining disasters, and the corporate controlled Supreme Court.
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September 25, 2013- Ever since last week's reversal of former GOP Rep. Tom DeLay's 2010 money laundering convictions by a 2-to-1 partisan decision of a three-judge Texas appeals court panel, we have been contrasting the Texas Republican's treatment in the judicial system with that of Alabama's former Democratic Governor Don Siegelman.
Media Matters: Fox's Karl Rove Shouts Lies About Benghazi
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September 8, 2013- Fox News contributor Karl Rove repeated long-debunked falsehoods about the military response to the September 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya.
During Fox News Sunday on September 8, a panel discussion turned to the upcoming anniversary of the attacks in Benghazi. During the segment, Rove falsely asserted that no military assets were ordered to assist the Americans under attack in Benghazi. Rove soon raised his voice and, over and over again, repeated his false claim that no help was sent to Benghazi.
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Ginni Thomas and her conservative allies have launched a stealth attack on the GOP's top strategist.
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July 25, 2013- Groundswell, the recently created coalition of prominent right-wing activists and journalists, gathers weekly to coordinate messaging and plot strategy for "a 30 front war seeking to fundamentally transform the nation." These sessions usually fixate on how best to battle the president, congressional Democrats, and progressive groups. But their 30-front war also includes something of a civil war: a fierce crusade against the Republican establishment and Karl Rove, the GOP strategist and Fox News pundit.
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June 21, 2013- Highlighting the split between big-business Republicans and their more socially conservative brethren, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) on Friday mocked Karl Rove and his allies at the super PAC American Crossroads as a bunch of out-of-touch "fat cats" who spend their time sipping drinks at country clubs.
If they paid more attention to regular people, Sessions argued on the Senate floor, Rove and his pals might have advised Mitt Romney to take a more aggressive stance on immigration, which could have put the wealthy former governor in the White House.
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BALTIMORE -- "From utility man to All-Star." That could be the title of Melvin
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The Orioles workhorse has transformed himself from a part-time player to an
American League All-Star in an amazing turnaround season.
Mora on Sunday was named a reserve
on the AL All-Star Team after leading the league in hitting and cementing
himself in the Orioles' starting lineup.
Mora, 31, is hitting .361 and celebrated his All-Star selection with his 13th
homer in the Orioles' 5-3 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays.
The former New York Met entered this season a career .249 hitter and stamped
himself as a utility player by having only a .195 batting average after the 2002 All-Star break.
Manager Mike Hargrove insisted in Spring Training 2003 that Mora would play "three to
four days a week."
But Mora never agreed with that assessment.
"It's the team's decision wherever they put me, but you can't take away someone's
dream," Mora said. "I am glad to be representing the Baltimore Orioles. It is an
honor to be at the top of the list of players."
Hargrove stuck with his plan in April, as Mora had only 51 at-bats in 17 games. But the lineup was struggling. Center fielder Gary Matthews was mired
in a slump, and left fielder Marty Cordova was out with elbow surgery. So Mora
began filling in at center field and then in left.
And Mora began hitting -- and so Hargrove wrote his name in the lineup in permanent ink.
"I think this is the kind of player he is," Hargrove said. "I think he certainly
deserves it. I think it's exceptional what he has done but not out of the
ordinary. I think he was capable of this."
Mora is still streaking and has piled up enough at-bats to rank atop AL hitters. He batted .379 in May and had a five-hit game on May 25 at
Texas. He also had a career-high 23-game hitting streak, third-best in Orioles
The streak began on May 17 with a single against Tampa Bay and ended against Milwaukee on June 13, when he went 0-for-2 with a walk. He noticed that opposing pitchers
began pitching around him, and he saw fewer and fewer good pitches.
It was a sign of respect, something Mora has garnered a great deal of this
season. Now he is among the American League's top players.
"It's like a dream come true," he said. "I am very proud to be on the team. It
showed how much hard work will do. I have worked hard in the offseason to get to
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Now comes Mora's next arduous task: getting tickets for his family. Sounds
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"I have to talk to my wife [Gisel] and get a plan together," he said. "I want
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